BISMARCK - North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple today signed House Bill 1219 into law. It designates the Convergent Lady Beetle, commonly known as the ladybug, as the official state insect. The Governor ...

Way back in the 1960s and '70s, the nine-spotted ladybug was the most common ladybug in the northeastern US. So beloved was this particular ladybug that it was designated as the official state insect ...

BISMARCK - A group of North Dakota second-graders will go all out next week in their effort to convince state lawmakers to make the ladybug the state insect. Kenmare teacher Tamara McNeiley will bring ...

Did you know that Massachusetts’ official state insect is the ladybug? The law was passed in 1974 after a large group of second graders from Kennedy School in Franklin, Mass. visited lawmakers at the ...

Ms. Johnson's second grade class is coming back to the State House on Friday, and their story from 50 years ago shows how a teacher and a little civics education can have a marked impact — on a ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple is taking the advice of some Kenmare second grade students. He signed legislation Tuesday that makes the ladybug North Dakota's state insect. The ...